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New Contest Starting Now! This Target Haunts Me

Back when I bought my first rifle and wanted to get into loading, I received some wicked bad gun counter info. I already got the press and tools just was looking for the powder and bullets. I was very trusting at the time. Guy told me H1000 and some 115gr bullets. So I went with that and had a nice load worked out in my head. went to the range and zeroed off with some factory ammo. let the rifle cool off a little while and then tested this load., rocked the first one off, nice hole in the target.. rocked another off. DANG same hole.... so went with 2 more and made one hole. The fifth one hit high. I was kind of disappointed, so went down to get a close look. well.... I must say after seeing this I just stopped shooting and did tons more research. I needed a much faster twist barrel for the 115. The 1/12 in the old .243win just wasn't right and the bullets hit sideways.. so went back to the drawing board.


The 5 shot group.

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223 Powder Issues

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet... but with light bullets from a slow twist barrel, it's unlikely that the ES/SD is the major cause of any accuracy problems, at the distances that combo is typically used for. Short range BR shooters routinely shoot tiny groups with ES/SD numbers that would give the LR crowd hives.

Rifle Scopes GPO Centuri Super Compact FFP

Has anyone had the chances to put a GPO Centuri Super Compact through the paces? I'm considering a 4-16x44i FFP for an ultralight rifle I put together for hunting here in the Rockies.

The features look great. And the weight is the best I've seen for an FFP in a usable mag range for western hunting. All the reviews out there seem to be positive, though there are very few, as they're fairly new to the market. Hoping someone has a bit of time with one at this point and can speak to their experience as far as durability and reliable tracking.

I'm not concerned about the debate of which country they're assembled or marketing strategy.